Athletes of our club have participated in most of the Olympic Games organized, incl. the first modern ones held in Athens in 1896. They have won all three colours of medals in World and European championships as members of the Greek National teams in various sports (men, women, U19, U16) .

1890 – Est. in Smyrni (Minor Asia, western coast of today’s Turkey, now called Izmir) as a music & sports club

1901 – Panionios is the first club to organize School Games and indirectly forces the State to make the lesson of gymnastics mandatory at schools

1902 – Panionios establishes the first school for gymnasts/trainers and trainees from scholls all over Greece arrive in Smyrni.

1913 – Panionios introduces the first Volleyball team in Greece.

1922 – Forced to transfer to Athens, after the disaster of the city of Smyrni, together with the thousands of Greek refugees

1925 – Panionios suggests the establishment of women sports.

1927 – Panionios organizes the first women’s sport games.

1940 – Settled down in the Athenian suburb of Nea Smyrni, named like that to honor the memory of the burned city in Minor Asia

The club has a tradition of cultivating all major sports and was the first Greek club to establish a track & field division for women, in 1925 as well as introduce women’s volleyball in the decade that followed

RECENT HISTORY

With the gradual transformation of men’s football and basketball into professional sports, Panionios Football Club (FC) and Panionios Basketball Club (BC) became privately owned clubs operating under the auspices of the traditional “amateur sports” Panionios GSS.

Since late 2011, under the weight of financial crisis and the absence of investors, the ‘amateur sports” Panionios GSS is also the majority owner of the professional football club (Panionios FC)

Today, our club is in the process of reviving the cultural part of its activities, having ensured the co-operation of top figures of the local cultural life.

In our minds, SPORTS = CULTURE = CIVILIZATION

ALONG THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION STRATEGY POINTS

Social Inclusion

In 2012, Panionios G.S.S. in co-operation with the largest relevant school in Athens, established a department for children with physical handicaps (disabled)

The club introduced lower fees for the children of multi-member families and unemployed citizens.

Athletes and coaches promoting sports by visiting the schools of the Municipality

Holding events connecting Health and Sports

Fight against doping

Co-operate with local authorities and stressing the advantages of “healthy” competition to sporting youths

OUR VISION

Manage to persuade local decision makers that especially in financial crisis times, sports should be encouraged, not considered as “luxury”, not deprived of their social and educational function (Lisbon Treaty: “contribute to the promotion of European sporting issues, while taking account of the specific nature of sport, its structures based on voluntary activity and its social and educational function”)

Welcome/Attract more youth in well maintained, improved sporting facilities